Bishop Donald Sanborn Beliefs, Heresies and Practices Exposed

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Donald J. Sanborn (born 1957) is
a self-professed Traditionalist Catholic bishop belonging to the
Sedeprivationist school or party. Unhappy with the church reforms
being introduced in light of the Second Vatican Council, he entered
Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre's seminary in Ecône, Switzerland in
1971, and was initially made a priest while belonging to the Society
of St. Pius X under Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre on June 29, 1975.

Bishop Donald Sanborn was born in New
York to a family of English ancestry who have relatively deep roots
in the area, having arrived in New England as far back as 1632. In
1977, he was appointed the Rector of the first SSPX's seminary in the
Americas at Michigan, but moved it to a larger base St. Thomas
Aquinas Seminary at Connecticut two years later. As the SSPX was
making gestures to the modernist Vatican, in 1983, Sanborn was among
nine SSPX priests expelled because they objected to liturgical
changes imposed by Archbishop Lefebvre, as well as to other
disturbing leftward trends in the Archbishop's organization.

In early 1983, Archbishop Lefebvre
directed the SSPX's American priests to follow Angelo Roncalli's
(John XXIII's) liturgical books of 1962. Lefebvre also insisted that
priests publicly affirm their allegiance to "Pope" John
Paul II, which the sedevacantists among them, including Sanborn,
refused. They were promptly expelled from the SSPX. Thereafter, these
priests, and a few other seminarians who joined them from the SSPX,
formed the Society of St. Pius V (SSPV) under the leadership of
Clarence Kelly, upholding sedevacantism. Sanborn was one of the
founding priests.

Within the SSPV too, differences arose
over Kelly's rejection of the Thuc-lineage bishops as invalid, and
Sanborn, Daniel Dolan, Cekada and others left, becoming independent
priests.

During the early 1990s, Sanborn turned
his hand to writing and produced articles exposing the heresies of
the Second Vatican Council and the reigning Anti-Pope Karol Wojtyla
("John Paul II"). He founded a scholarly quarterly journal
for "Catholic" priests called Sacerdotium and a
periodical for the laity called Catholic Restoration.
Encouraged by other traditionalist priests, in 1995 he founded the
Most Holy Trinity Seminary for the formation of priests, originally
based at Warren, Michigan but would later move to Brooksville,
Florida. He was made a "Catholic" Bishop in 2002 by Bishop
Robert McKenna, a Dominican. Sanborn is now a Thuc lineage bishop, so
many traditionalists dispute the validity of his consecration.
Sanborn has a considerable internet presence.

Bishop Donald Sanborn
Thuc-line bishop

All those consecrated by the heretic
Bishop
Thuc
or by others of his line (or by any other heretic or schismatic)
cannot exercise their orders lawfully since they (in addition to
being heretics and outside the Church) lack the canonical mission
which the Council of Trent dogmatically teaches to be necessary for a
bishop to be a legitimate minister of the word and the sacraments:
“If
anyone say… that those who have not been rightly ordained by
ecclesiastical and canonical power and have not been sent [by the
Church], but come from some other source [such as a heretical or
schismatical source], are lawful ministers of the word and of the
sacraments: let him be anathema.”
(Council of Trent, Session XXIII, Canon VII; Denzinger 967). Plainly
no necessity, no claim of epikeia can override,
even in an extreme need, an obligation derived, not from human law,
but from Divine law infallibly proposed as such by the Church (such
as the Divine Law that forbids Catholics to communicate in the
sacraments with non-Catholics and heretics).

Bishop
Thuc signed
the heretical Vatican II documents,
at which point he was known to be a notorious heretic with no office
in the Church. He was one of the most liberal, rebellious, and
heretical bishops at Vatican II. From his own writings during the
robber’s Second Vatican II Council, Thuc supported the false
ecumenical movement, feminism, and women in sacred functions, such as
deacons and priests.

1917
Code of Canon Law:
“Canon 2372. Reception of Orders from Unworthy Prelates: All
persons who presume to receive orders from a prelate who has been
excommunicated, suspended, or interdicted by a declaratory or
condemnatory sentence, or
from a notorious apostate, heretic, or schismatic, automatically
incur suspensiona
divinis reserved
to the Apostolic See. Any person who has been ordained in good faith
by such a man, forfeits the right to exercise the order thus received
until he obtains a dispensation from the prohibition.”

The
Communication of Catholics with Schismatics,
Holy Orders: “[p. 103] Persons
ordained by schismatic bishops were,
upon a proper rectification or amendment in their status, to
be reconciled and absolved.
… Before the ordained
persons could exercise their Orders, it was necessary for them to
receive from the Holy See a dispensation from the irregularity which
they had incurred.”

It
is of the faith—therefore, epikeia cannot
justify it—that a notorious apostate, heretic, or schismatic
bishop cannot be a legal successor to the apostles, nor can he
propagate a legal line by ordaining Catholic priests or bishops.
People ordained by heretics or schismatics are valid priests and
bishops, but their orders are unlawful and illicit, which means that
they cannot exercise their order without sin.

If illegal
bishops and priests, such as the Thucites, want to enter the Catholic
Church and have their sins forgiven, they must abjure by renouncing
their schismatic crime and any heresies they believe in, along with
the public crimes of schism and heresy of the non-Catholic bishop who
consecrated or ordained them.

The
Communication of Catholics with Schismatics,
Holy Orders: “[p. 103] If they had embraced any errors, they
had previously to abjure them; if they had not embraced any errors,
they had nevertheless to renounce the schism of their ordaining
prelate. The abjuration was to be made either publicly or secretly,
as the facts in the case directed.”

Most Holy Trinity Seminary Statement of Belief

Most holy Trinity homepage states
the following facts about themselves on their website:

Most Holy Trinity Seminary was founded
in 1995 in order to provide priestly training for young men who
thoroughly reject Vatican II, its reforms, and the Modernist
hierarchy which promulgates them. This position is in contrast to the
seminaries of traditionalist groups that operate with the approval of
the Modernist hierarchy, or who seek this approval.

The Seminary trains priests according
to pre-Vatican II standards. Its rule, discipline, spiritual
formation, and academic curriculum imitate faithfully those which
were in effect in seminaries before the Second Vatican Council. By
training priests in this manner, the seminary hopes to contribute to
the solution to the problem of the nearly universal desintegration of
Catholic faith, morals, discipline, and liturgy which the Second
Vatican Council has caused.

The seminary sees that the only
solution to the problem of Vatican II, however, is to condemn it as a
false council which was dominated by heretics, and to discard and
ignore its decrees and enactments. Consequently, the Seminary does
not seek to be recognized by the heretical hierarchy which
promulgates Vatican II, nor does it seek to work with the Novus Ordo
clergy, as if in a single church or religion.

The Seminary therefore repudiates the
idea of the Motu Proprio Mass, or that of a fraternity of priests
which has received permission or seeks permission from the Novus Ordo
hierarchy to function in communion with the Modernist heretics.

The Catholic Church, in the outlook of
the Seminary, will not be cured of its current problems until the
hierarchical sees, particularly the papacy, are once again occupied
by Catholics. For as long as Modernist heretics possess the mere
appearance of authority which they now possess, the problem of
Vatican II will continue. In the meantime the Seminary, as well as
the priests who emanate from it, shall abhor even the suggestion of
an official recognition from the Novus Ordo hierarchy, or of a
compromise with the Modernists, whom St. Pius X called the “most
pernicious of all the enemies of the Church,” who are striving
“utterly to subvert the very Kingdom of Christ.”

Bishop Donald Sanborn's Heretical Beliefs and
Practices Exposed

Bishop Sanborn sadly believes that
souls can be saved in false religions, and he kicks out of his church
anyone who doesn’t believe in “baptism of desire.”
Bishop Sanborn believes that non-Catholics, including Jews and
pagans, can be saved by “invincible ignorance” and
baptism of desire. Since Sanborn is a notorious heretic who not only
imposes his heresy upon those at his Mass, but also an automatically,
majorly excommunicated notorious heretic, Catholics must avoid him
and other such pestilential heretics’ Masses and not receive
any sacraments from them under pain of mortal sin.

Pope Benedict XIV,
Ex Quo Primum (# 23), March 1, 1756: “Moreover
heretics and schismatics are
subject to the censure of major excommunication
by the law of Can. de Ligu. 23, quest. 5, and Can. Nulli, 5, dist.
19.”

As we have seen, people automatically
excommunicated in this way are majorly excommunicated, which
means that they must be shunnedfor religious
purposes and the sacraments:

St. Thomas
Aquinas, Summa Theologica, Suppl., Part, Q. 23, Art. 1: “The
other is major excommunicationwhich deprives a man
of the sacraments of the Church and of the communion of the faithful
[prayers, religious gatherings, etc.]. WHEREFORE IT IS NOT
LAWFUL TO COMMUNICATE WITH ONE WHO LIES UNDER SUCH AN
EXCOMMUNICATION.”

Bishop Sanborn publishes an “Anti-Feeneyite”
Catechism, while he believes that pagans and idolaters can be saved

Bishop Sanborn is a “traditionalist”
bishop who has aggressively attacked those who don’t believe in
baptism of desire. Many don’t know that, in addition to holding
this false position, Sanborn also (like almost every other
“traditionalist” priest today) believes that souls can be
saved in false religions. He thus rejects the dogma Outside the
Church There is No Salvation in its defined meaning.

Bishop Donald
Sanborn, Sacerdotium V, p. 24: “Wojtyla’s
ecclesiology goes a step beyond Vatican II, a little step for man,
but a great step for apostasy. While the Council seems to draw the
line of the Mystical Body around those ‘who in faith look
towards Jesus’ – whatever that means – Wojtyla
[John Paul II] is ready to sign up the entire human race in the
Mystical Body by the fact, as he says, that all are united to Christ
by means of the Incarnation. With this principle, the Novus Ordites
are in ‘communion’ not only with the Anglicans and the
Orthodox, but with everything: Moslems, Buddhists, Hindus,
spiritists, Jews, Great Thumb worshippers. You name it; they are in
communion with it. Vatican II’s idea of the Church is
heretical, since it identifies organized religions of pagans and
idolaters with the Mystical Body of Christ. The truth is that in no
way are pagans and idolaters, as pagans and idolaters, united
to the Mystical Body of Christ. If, by some mystery of
Providence and Predestination, they [pagans and idolaters] are united
to the soul of the Church, and by desire to its body, it is in spite
of their paganism and idolatry. It is due to an invincible
ignorance of their error.”

As we see here, Bishop Donald Sanborn
is a heretic who rejects the dogma that the Catholic Faith is
necessary for all for salvation. His words above prove that he
rejects the dogma. He bluntly indicates that it’s possible for
pagans and idolaters to be united to the Church and be saved. This is
clear-cut heresy. He has repeated this heresy on numerous occasions.
For instance, in a sermon on 2/17/08, Sanborn stated again that
people can worship a false god without guilt through invincible
ignorance and that souls can be saved in false religions.

Pope Gregory XVI,
Summo Iugiter Studio (# 2), May 27, 1832: “Finally
some of these misguided people attempt to persuade
themselves and others that men are not saved only in the Catholic
religion, but that even heretics may attain eternal life.”

Pope Eugene IV,
Council of Florence, The Athanasian Creed, Sess. 8, Nov. 22,
1439, ex cathedra: “Whoever wishes
to be saved, needs above all to hold the Catholic faith; unless each
one preserves this whole and inviolate, he will without a doubt
perish in eternity.” (Decrees of the Ecumenical
Councils, Vol. 1, pp. 550-553; Denzinger 39-40)

Pope Innocent III,
Fourth Lateran Council, Constitution 1, 1215, ex
cathedra: “There is indeed one universal Church of
the faithful, outside of which nobody at all is saved, in which
Jesus Christ is both priest and sacrifice.”

Pope Gregory XVI,
SummoIugiter Studio, May 27, 1832, on no salvation
outside the Church: “Finally some of these misguided people
attempt to persuade themselves and others that men are not saved only
in the Catholic religion, but that even heretics may attain
eternal life… You know how zealously Our predecessors
taught that article of faith which these dare to deny, namely
the necessity of the Catholic faith and of unity for salvation…
Omitting other appropriate passages which are almost numberless in
the writings of the Fathers, We shall praise St. Gregory the
Great who expressly testifies that THIS IS INDEED THE TEACHING OF
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. He says: ‘The holy universal Church
teaches that it is not possible to worship God truly except in her
and asserts that all who are outside of her will not be
saved.’ Official acts of the Church proclaim the
same dogma. Thus, in the decree on faith which Innocent III
published with the synod of Lateran IV, these things are written:
‘There is one universal Church of all the
faithful outside of which no one is saved.’
Finally the same dogma is also expressly mentioned in the profession
of faith proposed by the Apostolic See, not only that which all Latin
churches use, but also that which the Greek Orthodox Church uses and
that which other Eastern Catholics use. We did not mention these
selected testimonies because Wethought you were ignorant
of that article of faith and in need of Our instruction. Far be it
from Us to have such an absurd and insulting suspicion about you. But
We are so concerned about this serious and well known dogma, which
has been attacked with such remarkable audacity, that We could not
restrain Our pen from reinforcing this truth with many testimonies.”

Pope Eugene IV,
Council of Florence, “Cantate Domino,” 1441, ex
cathedra: “The Holy Roman Church firmly believes,
professes and preaches that all those who are outside the Catholic
Church, not only pagans but also Jews or
heretics and schismatics, cannot share in eternal life and will go
into the everlasting fire which was prepared for the devil and his
angels, unless they are joined to the Church before the end of their
lives; that the unity of this ecclesiastical body is of such
importance that only those who abide in it do the Church’s
sacraments contribute to salvation and do fasts, almsgiving and other
works of piety and practices of the Christian militia productive of
eternal rewards; and that nobody can be saved, no matter how much
he has given away in alms and even if he has shed blood in the name
of Christ, unless he has persevered in the bosom and unity of the
Catholic Church.”

Bishop Sanborn is preaching a new
gospel directly contrary to Sacred Scripture. He is preaching that
idolaters can actually be saved.

Archbishop
Lefebvre, Open Letter to Confused Catholics,
1986: “‘Outside the Catholic Church there is no
salvation’… Does
that mean that no Protestant, no Muslim, no Buddhist or animist will
be saved? No,
it would be a second error to think that.
… The doctrine of the Church also recognizes implicit—baptism
of desire. This consists in doing the will of God. God knows all men
and He knows that amongst
Protestants,
Muslims, Buddhists and in the whole of humanity
there are men of good will. They
receive the grace of baptism without knowing it, but in an effective
way. In this way they become part of the Church.”
(From his book Open Letter to
Confused Catholics,
1986, Chapter X, Ecumenism, p. 73-4)

Those who refuse to believe in the
dogma Outside the Church There is No Salvation until they
understand how there is justice in it are simply withholding their
Faith in Christ’s revelation. Those with the true Faith in
Christ (and His Church) accept His teaching first and
understand the truth in it (i.e., why it is true) second. A
Catholic does not withhold his belief in Christ’s revelation
until he can understand it. That is the mentality of a faithless
heretic who possesses insufferable pride. St. Anselm sums up the true
Catholic outlook on this point.

St. Anselm, Doctor
of the Church, Prosologion, Chap. 1: “For I do not
seek to understand that I may believe, but I believe in
order to understand. For this also I believe, that unless
I believed, I should not understand.”

This is also the same heresy that is
held by the CMRI, SSPV, SSPX, FSSP, Dolan, Cekada, etc., etc., etc.,
etc., etc. Almost all priests in the country today hold the same
horrible heresy that souls can be saved in false religions (heresy),
and even as idolaters and pagans. They say that these idolaters and
pagans (Buddhists, Hindus, Jews, etc.) are united to the Church and
saved in spite of their false religion. But it makes no
difference that they say that the pagans and idolaters are saved in
spite of their paganism and idolatry, because they are saying that
people who don’t have the Catholic Faith – and are in
false religions – can be saved, which is blatant heresy.

Pope Eugene IV,
Council of Florence, Sess. 8, Nov. 22, 1439, ex cathedra:
Whoever wishes to be saved,
needs above all to hold the Catholic faith; unless each one preserves
this whole and inviolate, he will without a doubt perish in
eternity.– But the Catholic faith is this, that
we worship one God in the Trinity, and the Trinity in unity…
Therefore let him who wishes to be saved, think thus concerning
the Trinity.

“But it is necessary for eternal salvation that he
faithfully believe also in the incarnation of our Lord Jesus
Christ...the Son of God is God and man...This is the Catholic
faith; unless each one believes this faithfully and firmly, he cannot
be saved.”

Bishop Sanborn told someone we know
that a Christ-hating Jew could possibly be saved without the Catholic
Faith. But this shouldn’t really surprise people, considering
what Sanborn says above about pagans and idolaters being saved.

Sanborn even informed someone we know
(whom he kicked out of his chapel for believing in the necessity of
water baptism) that he (i.e. Sanborn) believes that a Jew who hates
Christ could be saved while hating Christ. Sanborn’s colleague,
Fr. Anthony Cekada believes similarly, and even said that the
Catholic dogma on salvation doesn’t exclude the idea that
non-Catholic “individuals” are saved, but only that their
sects are means of salvation. (Closing statement in a debate
in The Remnant, March 31, 2002.) This is a heretical rejection
of the dogma, of course; for the definitions on salvation declare
just the opposite: they declare that all individuals who die as
non-Catholics are lost. The definitions don’t merely
say that their non-Catholic religions are not means of salvation.

Another person we know told us the
following:

“I spoke to
Bishop Sanborn in December 2004. And I asked him does a Jew who is
taught to denounce Christ have a better chance to go to heaven than a
so-called ‘Feeneyite.’ His response was ‘yes.’”

This is pure evil. A “feeneyite”
is an adherent to a position which has become known as “feeneyism”,
which is the doctrinal position associated with Fr. Leonard Feeney
(1897–1978), a Jesuit priest and founder of the Slaves of the
Immaculate Heart of Mary, who advocated a strict and correct
interpretation of the doctrine extra Ecclesiam nulla salus ("outside
the Church there is no salvation") and on the absolute necessity
of receiving water baptism for salvation without exception. Yet the
heretic and totally faithless Sanborn says that a Christ rejecting
Jew have a better chance to go to heaven than those Catholics who
strictly adhere to the Church’s infallible and correct teaching
on outside the Catholic Church
and water baptism there is no salvation!

The
Sacrament of Baptism makes one a member of the Church (Florence:
Denz. 696; [1314]; Council of Trent: Denz. 895; [1671]);

Anyone
not Baptized (sacramentally) is not a member of the Catholic Church
(Trent: Denz. 895; [1671]), that is, he is not “truly
incorporated into the Church” (Pope Leo IV- Council of
Valence III: Denz. 324);

The
Sacrament of Baptism is in water ONLY, the two (water and Baptism)
are inseparable, and neither is separable from its link with the
other (Pope St. Leo I: Tome-Council of Chalcedon I), and must
be confessed as such (Council of Vienne: Denz. 482; [903];
Trent: Denz. 858; [1615]);

The
Sacrament of Baptism is necessary for salvation (Pope Benedict
XIV: Denz. 1470) for adults and for children alike (Vienne:
Ddnz. 482; [903]), and is optional for NO ONE (Trent: Denz.
861; [1618]).

For them, dogmas are not truths fallen
from heaven, but just a vague outline of what may or may not be
enforced by God and they understand dogma only in a practical sense,
without any norms for truly believing. Sanborn, Cekada, Kramer, among
other blasphemers, reiterates a philosophy that embraces a bogus
objective-subjective heresy that attests God has not given man the
knowledge to undoubtedly conclude someone is in hell. According to
this logic, the doctrine of the Blessed Trinity might have a
subjective component that includes a fourth person! Sound
preposterous? With heretics, any apostasy is plausible.

Apart from Catholic common sense, when
pondering the Old Law, it becomes even clearer that God’s words
are to be taken as ‘entire truths’. In the Old Testament,
He gave very specific laws and commands and the people were bound to
obey. When the covenant of circumcision was explained, Abraham and
others obeyed. When God explained how to build the ark, Noe
obediently built the ark. When God told Abraham to offer his own son
as a holocaust, he obeyed. When God said, “But if thou wilt not
let them go, behold, I will strike all thy coasts with frogs”
(Exodus 8:2), He was faithful to His word and frogs covered the land
of Egypt. When God relayed details about making the tabernacle and
the ark, His directions were followed. When God was not happy with a
man collecting sticks on the sabbath day, the Lord told Moses to let
the man die and hence, Moses complied. When Mother Mary gave birth to
Jesus, she followed the law of purification of women after child
birth. In all these cases, and many more, God’s words were not
philosophically dissected as harbouring an unsaid subjective meaning.
What would God think if Noe made the ark 600 cubits in length, as
opposed to 300?! God, in the Old Testament, was very clear with His
commands. Likewise, when God speaks to the faithful through the Chair
of St. Peter, His words are to be taken as wholly true. ‘Baptism
of desire’ etc. advocates attest the opposite, affirming
dogmatic words are not absolute, but subject to unwritten exceptions.
From this standpoint, it seems the Old Law was more exact than the
New Testament! This is absurd, as the Holy Gospel is greater and full
of Christ’s wisdom. To protest real and natural water is not
necessary for baptism is a great revolution against the words of
Jesus Christ. According to Sanborn, Cekada, Kramer etc., ‘anyone’
can be saved because God can extraordinarily debunk His own laws and
open heaven for non-Catholics. This mindset is abominable and labels
God a deceiver. Now, of course, God allows certain heresies to arise,
but never have such heresies been taught by the magisterium in any
document of faith or morals and applied to the Universal Church. To
defend these heresies is to place a statue of a fallible man in front
of almighty God.

This heretical teaching that
non-Catholics can be united to the Church and be saved without the
Catholic Faith was actually one of the greatest reasons for why the
Great Apostasy even happened. Once this heresy was imbibed, Vatican
II and the post-Vatican II Church could then justify almost anything
because “we cannot say that all of them are lost.” All of
Vatican II’s heresies on ecumenism, religious liberty, etc. are
directly connected to what Sanborn and priests like him believe. In
fact, if you were to ask a Novus Ordo priest about the dogma Outside
the Church There is No Salvation and the necessity of the Catholic
Faith, you would receive an answer very similar to Donald Sanborn’s
answer above. The Novus Ordo priest would tell you about invincible
ignorance, the soul of the Church, etc.

If a Jew or Buddhist or a Muslim can be
saved without the Catholic Faith, then the Church’s dogma on
salvation has no meaning. It is meaningless literally and in every
sense of that word! And if that dogma doesn’t mean what it has
declared, as they believe, then there is no reason to believe in any
other dogma. They are all without meaning – truly meaningless.
Hence, it was in the decades before Vatican II, when the majority of
clerics started to believe that the Church’s teaching on
salvation is meaningless, that they were ready for Vatican II.

More Blatant Heresy

In late July 2013, Bishop Donald
Sanborn once again admitted that he believes non-Catholics and souls
in false religions can be saved. The actual words (for which we have
indisputable proof) are quoted below. He made the statement within
the hearing of Anthony Cekada, who of course holds the same condemned
heresy. As has been pointed out repeatedly, all BOD heretics
essentially believe in or accept this heresy. The statement below
proves the claim in that regard to be correct, once again. What’s
particularly interesting about this quote is that Sanborn admits such
people are saved ‘outside’ the Church – a
word for word denial of Catholic dogma. Sanborn is a horrible
heretic, but at least he openly expresses what all the BOD heretics
believe/accept: salvation outside the Church. At least he doesn’t
always lie about that aspect of it.

Bishop Donald
Sanborn, July 2013: “… in principle someone who is
outside the faith is
considered to have lost his soul. And I say in principle because, yes
it is possible that they be justified interiorly by various acts of
justification which I won’t go into here, but in
principle, to adhere to a false religion means that you are excluded
from Heaven. It’s only if you fulfill certain – you know,
a whole bunch of conditions, and whole various things take place –
that a person outside the
Catholic faith could achieve justification, and, with yet more
conditions, could achieve salvation.”

Think about how satanically dishonest
BOD heretics are, who hold the same heresy. They not only deny the
dogma, but most of them will also deny that they or their priests
believe anything like what is expressed above! The truth is that they
all accept the heresy that souls can be saved in any religion,
outside the Church, etc.

Moreover, while Sanborn does
acknowledge what the heretics believe, he is dishonest (and of course
heretical) in his explanation. For his claim that the people who are
saved ‘outside’ the Church must fulfill numerous
‘conditions’ is of course nonsense. He says that in an
attempt to make it appear as if salvation outside the Church isn’t
for all members of false religions, just some. However, his position
leaves him with no basis for such an assertion. He could not say (and
he doesn’t truly believe) that salvation outside the Church is
not widespread. If pressed he would be forced to admit that he
doesn’t know who is saved, and that he cannot judge anyone to
be certainly excluded. That necessarily follows from his heretical
position.

For once you deny the dogma, as he
does, you have removed the barrier. You therefore are left with no
basis whatsoever upon which to say that conditions must be fulfilled
for a non-Catholic to be saved, or that salvation for non-Catholics
is rare; for the dogma doesn’t teach that there is salvation
outside the Church, but only with ‘conditions’ or
‘rarely.’ No, it infallibly declares (repeatedly)
that no one at all is saved outside the Church
(or without the Catholic faith) under any circumstances; and if
that’s not true, as the heretics believe, then anyone (and
any number of people in any kind of condition) can be saved
outside the Church. They are left with no basis whatsoever to say
that salvation requires x, y, and z conditions; and their attempts to
do so are only dishonest ways to make their heresy sound less
shocking. In fact, Sanborn and Cekada have admitted that they believe
Jews who reject Christ can be saved.

All the people
who die in cultures which have never been penetrated by the Gospel go
to Hell for sins against the natural law and the other grave sins
which they commit – which bad will and failure to cooperate
with God’s grace is the reason He does not reveal the Gospel to
them. The First Vatican Council defined infallibly, based on Romans
1, that the one true God can be known with certitude by the things
which have been made, and by the natural light of human reason.

St.
Paul, Romans 1:18-20: “For the wrath of God is revealed from
Heaven against all ungodliness and injustice of those men that detain
the truth of God in injustice: Because that which is known of God is
manifest in them. For God hath manifested it to them. For the
invisible things of him, from the creation of the world, are clearly
seen, being understood by the things that are made; his eternal power
also, and divinity: so that they are inexcusable.”

Everyone can know
with certainty that there is a supreme spiritual being, Who is the
One True God and the Creator of the world and all that it contains.
Everyone knows that God is not something that they have carved out of
wood or jade or stone. They know that God is not the tree that they
worship or the river they worship or the rock or the snake or the
sacred tree frog. They know that these things aren’t the
Creator of the universe. Every such person knows that he is
worshipping a creature rather than the Creator. They are, as St. Paul
says in verse 20, without excuse. St. Augustine explains this well in
reference to persons who died ignorant of the Faith and without
baptism.

St.
Augustine (+428): “… God foreknew that if they had
lived and the gospel had been preached to them, they would have heard
it without belief.” (The
Faith of the Early Fathers,
Vol. 3: 1997)

Because
God is all knowing, He knew all of the good and bad sheep, the elect
and the damned, even before the earth was created: "For
all things were known to the Lord God, before they were created."
(Eccus. 23:29) And because God is all powerful, He creates the elect
as well as the damned and gives them both ample opportunities and
occasions in a time or times and place or places in which they can
cooperate with His grace and get baptized by water and enter the
Catholic Church sometime before they die, even if by a miracle,
provided on their own part there is no hindrance: "The
works of God are done in judgment from the beginning, and from the
making of them he distinguished their parts, and their beginnings in
their generations." (Eccus. 16:26) "[God] hath
made of one, all mankind, to dwell upon the whole face of the earth,
determining appointed times, and the limits of their habitation."
(Acts 17:26) And because God is all powerful, He clears all obstacles
that would prevent His elect of good-will from
being baptized by water and entering the Catholic Church: "No
word shall be impossible with God." (Lk. 1:37)

St.
Thomas Aquinas, De Veritate, 14, A. 11, ad 1: “Objection:
It is possible that someone may be brought up in the forest, or
among wolves; such a man cannot explicitly know anything about the
faith. St. Thomas replies: It is the characteristic of Divine
Providence to provide every man with what is necessary for salvation…
provided on his part there is no hindrance. In the case of a man who
seeks good and shuns evil, by the leading of natural reason, God
would either reveal to him through internal inspiration what had to
be believed, or would send some preacher of the faith to him…”

St.
Thomas Aquinas, Sent. II, 28, Q. 1, A. 4, ad 4: “If a man born
among barbarian nations, does what he can, God Himself will show him
what is necessary for salvation, either by inspiration or sending a
teacher to him.”

St.
Thomas Aquinas, Sent. III, 25, Q. 2, A. 2, solute. 2: “If a
man should have no one to instruct him, God will show him, unless
he culpably wishes to remain where he is.”

PEOPLE MUST
TAKE SIDES!

vs.

The
Catholic Church, Pope Eugene IV, The Council of Florence, Jesus
Christ, St. John and St. Peter

Pope
Eugene IV, Council of Florence, “Cantate Domino,”
1441, ex cathedra: “The Holy Roman Church
firmly believes, professes and preaches that all those who
are outside the Catholic Church, not only pagans but also Jews
or heretics and schismatics, cannot share in eternal life and will
go into the everlasting fire which was prepared for the devil and
his angels, unless they are joined to the Church before the
end of their lives; that the unity of this ecclesiastical body is
of such importance that only for those who abide in it do the
Church’s sacraments contribute to salvation and do fasts,
almsgiving and other works of piety and practices of the Christian
militia produce eternal rewards; and that nobody can be saved, no
matter how much he has given away in alms and even if he has shed
blood in the name of Christ, unless he has persevered in the bosom
and unity of the Catholic Church.” (Denz. 714)

Pope
Eugene IV, Council of Florence, 1441,
ex cathedra: “The
Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes and teaches that the
matter pertaining to the law of the Old Testament, the Mosaic law,
which are divided into ceremonies, sacred rites, sacrifices, and
sacraments, because
they were established to signify something in the future, although
they were suited to the divine worship at that time, after our
Lord’s coming had been signified by them, ceased,
and the sacraments of the New Testament began; and that whoever,
even after the passion, placed hope in these matters of the law
and submitted himself to them as necessary for salvation, as if
faith in Christ could not save without them, sinned mortally.
Yet it does not deny that after the passion of Christ up to the
promulgation of the Gospel they could have been observed until
they were believed to be in no way necessary for salvation; but
after the promulgation of the Gospel it
asserts that they cannot be observed without the loss of eternal
salvation.All,
therefore, who after that time [the promulgation of the Gospel]
observe circumcision and the Sabbath and the other requirements of
the law, the holy Roman Church declares alien to the Christian
faith and not in the least fit to participate in eternal
salvation.” (Denz. 712)

1 John
5:11-12: “And this is the testimony, that God hath given to
us eternal life. And this life is in his Son. He
that hath the Son, hath life. He that hath not the Son,
hath not life.”

“For
God so loved the world, as to give His only begotten Son: that
whosoever believeth in Him,
may not perish, but may have life everlasting.” (John 3:16)

“He
that believeth in the Son hath life everlasting: but he
that believeth not the Son, shall not see life,
but the wrath of God abideth on him.” (John 3:36)

To
assert that one can attain salvation while rejecting Jesus Christ
is to disbelieve in the Gospel and to fail to understand its core
message.

“Now
this is life
everlasting, that they may know thee, the only true God, and Jesus
Christ, whom thou
hast sent.” (John 17:3)

“And
he said to them [the Jews]: You are from beneath, I am from above.
You are of this world, I am not of this world. Therefore, I said
to you, that you shall die in your sins: for
if you believe not that I am he, you shall die in your sin.”
(John 8:23-24)

“Amen,
Amen, I say to you: he
that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up
another way, the same is a thief and a robber… I am
the door.”
(John 10:1, 9)

“Jesus
saith to them: I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No
man cometh to the Father, but by me.”
(John 14:6)

“… the
name of Our Lord Jesus Christ… Nor
is there salvation in any other.
For there is no other name, under heaven, given to men, whereby we
must be saved.” (Acts 4:12).

Fr.
Denis Fahey, The
Kingship of Christ and the Conversion of the Jewish Nation (1953),
p. 52: “The Jews, as a nation, are objectively aiming at
giving society a direction which is in complete opposition to the
order God wants. It is possible that
a member of the Jewish Nation, who rejects Our Lord, may have the
supernatural life which God wishes to see in every soul,
and so be good with the goodness God wants, but objectively, the
direction he is seeking to
give to the world is opposed to God and to that life, and
therefore is not good. If a Jew who
rejects our Lord is good in the way God demands,
it is in spite of the movement in which he and his nation are
engaged.”

Tom
Droleskey: “It is, therefore, a little presumptuous to
conclude that men who were never once censured during their lives
are in error while the man who was
called to the Holy Office of the Inquistion (and refused to go
after repeated requests) is considered to have had the sole and
correct interpretation of the doctrine of Extra Ecclesiam Nulla
Salus [referring to Fr. Feeney]. Bishops
Dolan, Sanborn, Pivarunas, Kelly, and McKenna, each
of whom is teaching the Catholic doctrine that was taught by
Fathers McNabb and Fahey
without being censured, are great champions of the Faith in this
era of conciliar apostasy and betrayal.”

Bishop
Robert McKenna, to Bro. Peter Dimond, Nov. 25, 2004: “2. I
answer your ‘one simple question’ regarding Fr. Denis
Fahey’s saying, ‘The Jews, as a nation, are
objectively aiming at giving society a direction which is in
complete opposition to the order God wants. It is possible that
a member of the Jewish Nation, who rejects Our Lord, may
have the supernatural life which God wishes to see in every soul,
and so be good with the goodness God wants, but objectively, the
direction he is seeking to give to the world is opposed to God and
to that life, and therefore is not good. If a Jew who rejects our
Lord is good in the way God demands, it is in spite of the
movement in which he and his nation are engaged.’ Fr.
Fahey in these words is in fact recognizing Baptism of Desire…
I could not agree more with what Fr. Fahey says…”

Bishop Donald Sanborn, Sacerdotium
V, p. 24: “Vatican II’s idea of the Church is
heretical, since it identifies organized religions of pagans and
idolaters with the Mystical Body of Christ. The truth is that in
no way are pagans and idolaters, as pagans and idolaters,
united to the Mystical Body of Christ. If, by some mystery
of Providence and Predestination, they [pagans and idolaters] are
united to the soul of the Church, and by desire to its body, it is
in spite of their paganism and idolatry. It is due to an
invincible ignorance of their error.”

CONCERNING THOSE BAPTIZED
VALIDLY AS INFANTS BY MEMBERS OF NON-CATHOLIC SECTS

The Catholic
Church has always taught that anyone (including a layman or a
non-Catholic) can validly baptize if he adheres to proper matter and
form and if he has the intention of doing what the Church does.

Pope
Eugene IV, Council of Florence, “Exultate Deo,” 1439: “In
case of necessity, however, not only a priest or a deacon, but even a
layman or woman, yes even a pagan and a heretic can baptize, so long
as he preserves the form of the Church and has the intention of doing
what the Church does.” (Denzinger 696)

The Church has
always taught that infants baptized in heretical and schismatic
churches are made Catholics, members of the Church and subjects of
the Roman Pontiff, even if the people who baptized them are heretics
who are outside the Catholic Church. This is because the infant,
being below the age of reason, cannot be a heretic or schismatic. He
cannot have an impediment which would prevent Baptism from making him
a member of the Church.

Pope
Paul III, Council of Trent, Sess. 7, Can. 13 on the Sacrament of
Baptism: “If anyone shall say that infants, because they
have not actual faith, after having received baptism are not to be
numbered among the faithful… let him be anathema.”

This means that
all validly baptized infants wherever they are, even those baptized
in heretical non-Catholic churches by heretical ministers, are made
members of the Catholic Church. They are also made subject to the
Roman Pontiff (if there is one). So, at what one point does this
baptized Catholic infant become a non-Catholic – severing his
membership in the Church and subjection to the Roman Pontiff? After
the baptized infant reaches the age of reason, he or she becomes a
heretic or a schismatic and severs his membership in the Church and
severs subjection to the Roman Pontiff when he or she obstinately
rejects any teaching of the Catholic Church or
loses Faith in the essential mysteries of the Trinity and
Incarnation.

Pope
Clement VI, Super quibusdam, Sept. 20, 1351: “…We
ask: In the first place whether you and the Church of the
Armenians which is obedient to you, believe that all those
who in baptism have received the same Catholic faith,
and afterwards have withdrawn and will withdraw in the
future from the communion of this same Roman Church, which
one alone is Catholic, are schismatic and heretical, if
they remain obstinately separated
from the faith of this Roman Church. In the second place, we
ask whether you and the Armenians obedient to you believe that no man
of the wayfarers outside the faith of this Church, and outside the
obedience of the Pope of Rome, can finally be saved.”

So, one must be
clear on these points: 1) The unbaptized (Jews, Muslims, Mormons,
pagans, etc.) must all join the Catholic Church by receiving valid
Baptism and the Catholic Faith or they will all be lost. 2)
Among those who are validly baptized as infants, they are made
Catholics, members of the Church and subjects of the Roman Pontiff by
Baptism. They only sever that membership (which they already
possess) when they obstinately reject any Catholic dogma or
believe something contrary to the essential mysteries of the Trinity
and Incarnation. In the teaching of Pope Clement VI above, we see
this second point clearly taught: all who receive the Catholic Faith
in Baptism lose that Faith and become schismatic and heretical if
they become “obstinately separated from
the faith of this Roman Church.”

The fact is that
all Protestants who reject the Catholic Church or its dogmas on the
sacraments, the Papacy, etc. have obstinately separated from the
Faith of the Roman Church and have therefore severed their membership
in the Church of Christ. The same is true with the “Eastern
Orthodox” who obstinately reject dogmas on the Papacy and Papal
Infallibility. They need to be converted to the Catholic Faith for
salvation.

The
baptized children who reach the age of reason (and become adults) in
Protestant, Eastern Schismatic, etc. church buildings and believe in
the Trinity and the Incarnation (the essential components of the
Catholic Faith) and who
don’t reject any Catholic dogma because they don’t know
of any other than the Trinity and Incarnation,
and
who don’t embrace any positions incompatible with the Catholic
faith, Faith in God, Jesus Christ, the Trinity, the Natural Law (see:
The
Natural Law)
or what they know to be clearly taught in Scripture, WOULD BE
CATHOLICS
IN A HERETICAL CHURCH BUILDING.

Council
of Elvira, Canon 22, 300 A.D.: “If someone leaves the
Catholic Church and goes over to a heresy, and then
returns again, it is determined that penance is not to be denied to
such a one, since he has acknowledged his sin. Let him do
penance, then, for ten years, and after ten years he may come forward
to communion. If, indeed, there were children who were led
astray, since they have not sinned of their own fault, they may be
received without delay.” (The Faith of the Early
Fathers, Vol. 1: 611n)

This means that
the children above reason who were attending the church of a
heretical sect with their parents were not heretics because they were
not obstinately against something they knew to be taught by the
Church! This fact is also true of all people of all ages who go to a
heretical church without being obstinately opposed to any Church
teaching. This is exactly the Catholic position and what the
Church has always taught (as we have seen) – which is that
to be a heretic one must obstinately reject
something they know to be taught by God or the Catholic Church.

Canon
1325, 1917 Code of Canon Law: “After the reception of baptism,
if anyone, retaining the
name Christian, pertinaciously
[or obstinately] denies or doubts
something to be believed from the truth of divine and Catholic faith,
[such a one] is a heretic.”

Please consult
the following sections to learn what things one can and cannot be
ignorant about when it comes to the Catholic faith, its teachings and
dogmas – and concerning whether such a person is to be
considered a Catholic, an unbeliever or a heretic:

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